Representing Life Experience Of Japanese People After The Second World War

Kobo Abe is a representative writer in the literary in Showa period(1926-1989),so his literary works have also left the traces of the Showa period.He is a m odernist writer with a western style of literary creation.Though his writing style s harply differs from the aesthetic standard of Japanese traditional literature,out of t he social responsibilities as an intellectual,he started from reality and wrote indivi dualized novels to reflect and criticize the problems emerging in the Japanese soci ety in the process of modern development.This thesis focuses on anti-hero images,described cityscape,and the pursued novel art and discusses the irrational pheno mena in the Japanese society in the process of development after the end of the Second World War.And his creation is a unique writing for the Japanese people’s experience of life after the Second World War.The thesis consists of three parts: Part One starts from anti-hero images and briefly introduces the development of writing about anti-hero images in various schools of literature in Japan after the Second World War.Through close reading,from the diachronic perspective,the thesis classifies the anti-hero images in his fictions,compares them with the anti-hero images in the fictions of Kenzaburo Oe,and discusses the characteristics and time significance of the anti-hero images portrayed in the works of Kobo Abe.Part Two mainly analyzes Kobo Abe’s description of cityscape in his fictions,compares it with urban landscape in the works of the Japanese writer Yoshiyuki Junnosuke in the same period,and discusses the relationship between city images and the real society in novels of Kobo Abe.Part Three starts from the writing technique and individualized language art of these novels and focuses on the analysis of artistic features in Kobo Abe’s fictions.